Increasing omega-3 intake from the diet or supplements may help depressive kids, reports a pilot study for the first time. Researchers from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have reported for the first time that omega-3 fatty acids could also help children suffering from depression, a condition that “may be more common than previously thought”. 28 randomly depressed children, aged between 6 and 12, received either an omega-3 fatty acids or placebo for one month. Twenty of the children completed the study. At the end of the trial the researchers found that seven out of ten children in the omega-3 group and none of the children in the placebo group had depression score reductions of 50 per cent or more.
Belmaker and his colleagues report in the American Journal of Psychiatry (Vol 163, pp. 1098-1100) that four of the children taking the omega-3 supplements achieved remission.
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